Starwood Property Trust, Inc. announced that it has amended its existing credit facility with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association to increase available borrowings under the facility by $450 million to $1.0 billion.  The facility, which the Company originally entered into in December 2010, was extended an additional minimum term of five years and is now set to initially mature in January 2019. The Company also improved the pricing of the facility and made other structural changes to conform the facility to current market standards.   The Company will use the additional proceeds to fund its loan origination and acquisition pipeline. 

Stew Ward, Chief Financial Officer of Starwood Property Trust, stated, "With the Company's pipeline of attractive opportunities continuing to expand, we are pleased to have secured this additional $450 million of financial capacity while also increasing the term of this facility a minimum of an additional five years.  This line, as well as our ten others combined totaling more than $3.3 billion, enables us to seamlessly provide our clients financing options from a single lender encompassing the entire capital stack, one of our most significant competitive advantages. The continued support of our lenders and their ongoing confidence in Starwood Property Trust is validation of our ability to safely execute on our growth plans."